transitive. To influence, force, or constrain by blustering or hectoring language; to bring into or out of a state by blustering talk.

transitive. To talk big at; to bully. In modern colloquial use, To ‘blow up’, scold roundly.

transitive. To intimidate by bluster or threats; to domineer over; to bully; to bring or force out of or into something by threats or insolence.

transitive. To hector, bully; to scold, chide, storm at. (Cf. modern colloquial ‘to blow up’.)